Fishing for crucian carp and crucian carp in spring

Recipe

Stage No. 1

1. Fill the pan with cold water and put it on fire.
2. After the water has boiled, add 2 tea mugs of millet (the cheapest and most catchable grain for crucian carp).
3. 1 mug of semolina (for better adhesion).
4. 1 mug of pearl barley (cheap filler).
5. Drain the water to a level 1 cm above the cereal.
6. Cook for 30 minutes. Stir the mixture as it cooks to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
7. After 30 minutes of cooking, completely drain the water through a sieve. Be careful, touching the hot mixture with your hands is problematic even after 20-30 minutes of cooling. Only the surface cools down, but inside it remains hot for a very long time. You can cool the bait mixture by placing it in a small saucepan, and place the pan itself in a container with cold water, but do not allow the water to get on the bait.
8. After the bait has completely cooled, you can add the following ingredients.
9. 1 cup breadcrumbs (to make it more crumbly and create a haze)
10. 1 cup of sunflower cake (a very important ingredient, since crucian carp are crazy about the smell of the seeds).

This is only the first step , at which many can stop, and even now the attractiveness of bait is very high, but it can be increased in two more ways:

Stage No. 2

• Add flavoring drops (garlic, anise, cake, hemp, dill, strawberry, vanilla).
• Add 1-2 mugs of commercial bait with the smell of seeds, vanilla, hemp.

Of course, you may not have some of the ingredients on hand, but you can also substitute some of the ingredients with your own. We will be glad to hear your feedback and experiments with hooking crucian carp.

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Some tips

• If you plan to fish in an unfamiliar place, it is recommended to use several different mixtures. After all, bait for crucian carp can act differently in different bodies of water.
• Crucian carp is very rarely hungry. Therefore, do not overdo it with bait for the crucian carp, otherwise it will get enough and refuse the bait.
• It is advisable to add to the bait for catching crucian carp those ingredients that will be used for bait. The fish will get used to this taste, and it will be better to take the bait on the hook.

In the video below you will find a recipe for effective bait for crucian carp:

Components of bait for crucian carp

Successful fishing in most cases depends on proper feeding of crucian carp. However, her recipes for all occasions simply do not exist, because all bodies of water, as well as the taste preferences of crucian carp, are not at all similar to each other.

The menu of this fish includes worms and various larvae; crucian carp can easily feed on mud or algae. As a result, he is almost constantly full. Therefore, in order to attract it, it is necessary to use bait. It is needed to lure the crucian carp to the appropriate place and keep it there for a long time. You can use purchased bait or make it yourself, it depends on the preferences of the fisherman himself.

The best basis for preparing bait for crucian carp are:

• peas;
• cereals;
• compound feed;
• crushed wheat grains;
• corn flour;
• semolina;
• bran;
• breadcrumbs or rye crumbs;
• pearl barley;
• cake;
• millet;
• oatmeal.

Depending on the season and the reservoir, bait can be made from various ingredients

In spring or autumn, bait should include ingredients such as bloodworms, maggots, and crushed worms. Sometimes such feeding is in demand in the summer.

In order not to oversaturate the crucian carp, feeding should be done in small quantities. However, it is also necessary to take into account the nature of the reservoir. Bait that is too crushed for crucian carp will be lost in thick algae and will therefore be inaccessible to the fish. Such bait should include a large (50-70%) share of ballast. For this purpose, clay is used in the current, and earth or sand is used in the pond.

Complementary food for carp and crucian carp

Mid-spring is the height of the crucian and carp fishing season. In this article we’ll talk about who uses what proven recipes for preparing complementary foods for carp and crucian carp with your own hands. This can be done at home. These are not recipes with kilograms of expensive boilies and all sorts of flavorings. I would like to talk about budget, inexpensive, working recipes and products that are available to any simple fisherman. Below is a recipe for preparing crust for each of the fish in question, separately for crucian carp and for carp. I came up with these recipes through trial and error. Carp and crucian fishermen gave me tips. These recipes are suitable for summer, when the water is already warmed up normally.

Complementary feeding for carp.

Ingredients: 30% - Whole grain corn 20% - whole grain peas 20% - pearl barley 10% - crushed corn (either millet or barley grits) 10% - oil cake 10% - purchased flavored bait All components except the third and I usually buy the latter at the local poultry market in 10-liter buckets.
Firstly, it’s cheap, and secondly, all the grains there are unprocessed, which means they retain more of their original properties and aromas. Whole corn - 100 rub. bucket, peas - 120 rub. bucket, crushed grain - 80-100 rubles bucket, cake - 120 rubles. bucket. First we prepare the porridge, which will be the foundation of our bait. A 10-liter pan needs to be filled with 8-9 liters of water. We put it on the gas stove. Without waiting for the water to heat up, pour in the whole corn. After it boils, add the peas, since they cook a little faster than corn. You need to cook these 2 cereals until they begin to swell a little. Then you need to add pearl barley and cook until the desired condition, until all 3 cereals swell. Lastly, I add crushed corn or barley. Article on the topic: Where do trout live
? With the correct proportions, after 1-2 minutes the porridge will thicken greatly. The pan will be full. Turn off the heat and cover with a lid. The remaining water will be absorbed by the cereal. For one 10 liters. The pan takes 700-800 gr. corn, 500 - 600 gr. peas, the same amount of pearl barley, 300-400 gr. crushed pieces.

All these grams increase later after cooking. At the pond, I dump the porridge that has cooled overnight into a container, add the cake and a pack (800 g - 1 kg) of purchased flavored bait. For the last 2 years I have been using bait from the “Extra” series, which I always buy from the same store. This is carpomaniya.ru/cat/?product=3. Carp may prefer different flavors in each body of water, but in most cases Tutti Frutti, Honey and Chocolate work best for me. This bait gives the whole mixture a wonderful aroma and color that makes you want to eat it yourself. This recipe really works and many amateur carp anglers have already adopted it from me. Taking into account the fact that in a 10-liter pan the porridge is in a compressed form, after loosening it and mixing it with cake and purchased bait, an almost full 15-liter container is obtained. It usually lasts me all day. Here is a view of the finished bait.

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Complementary feeding for crucian carp.

40% - Pearl barley 20% - Half peas (grains divided in half) 10% - Barley grits or crushed corn 10% - Rolled oats 10% - Cake (cake) 10% - purchased flavored bait Here again in the store I only take pearl barley, rolled oats and purchased bait, the rest at the poultry market. If the crucian carp is not large, then I replace the peas with wheat bran. In the same way as for carp, I cook porridge for the base, adding ingredients in the following sequence: 1. Peas (in cold water), 2 Barley (as the peas begin to swell), 3 Barley or crushed barley (before cooking). On a pond, as with carp, I add cake and half a pack of purchased bait to the porridge, and, if possible, chopped worms. I also take complementary food “Carpomania”, if there is one: if not, then also from the “Extra” series, although crucian carp prefers slightly different flavors, namely “Hemp”, “Anise”, “Pea”. In terms of volume, crucian carp need less bait, especially if I fish not with a feeder, but with a float, so I often make do with a 7-liter pan of porridge, from which, after adding the other components, I get 10 liters of bait.

Additives for feeding crucian carp

Crucian carp loves odorous substances, but you need to add them carefully, literally a couple of drops at a time. In addition, you cannot use many different flavors; such a mixture of smells will scare the fish away from the groundbait and bait. The best bait for crucian carp should exude a subtle aroma.

In addition, he also has his own preferences for scents, depending on the season. For example, vanillin is better in summer, garlic is better in autumn, and in winter it is not recommended to flavor the fertilizer at all. In addition, it must be taken into account that the smell of tobacco and mosquito repellent on the bait will significantly reduce the bite.

A good catch can be achieved if you use the right flavors

The best additives for preparing bait for crucian carp are the following:

• anise;
• valerian;
• vanillin;
• cocoa powder;
• kerosene;
• hemp or rapeseed;
• cinnamon;
• honey;
• mint gingerbread;
• chopped nuts;
• oat cookies;
• fragrant vegetable oils;
• sugar;
• sunflower seeds;
• powdered milk;
• chopped garlic;
• crushed dill seeds;
• fruit essences;
• halva;
• thyme;
• essential oils.

Both the base and additives for bait are selected depending on the preferences of the crucian carp in a particular reservoir

By adding or removing additives and ingredients from the bait, you can create your own unique recipe.

How to properly feed carp

The carp does not come to the baited place immediately. You must be prepared for the fact that crucian carp, silver bream, and roach may bite at first. Then small carp come up, and only then large individuals come to the point. Therefore, before throwing gear into the water, a starting feeding is done, which is 20–30% of the total amount of the mixture, and then feed balls are thrown at intervals of 20–40 minutes, depending on the fishing conditions.

Useful video with tips on feeding carp in an unfamiliar body of water.

Feeding methods

There are different ways to deliver bait to the fishing area. The main task of the angler is to cast the balls tightly to create a spot on the bottom where the fish will approach:

• hand;
• slingshot;
• catapult;
• ladle;
• rocket feeder;
• steerable boat.

Sometimes the “treat” has to be brought in by boat.

Supplies for feeding

The most popular device is the feeder. They come in open, semi-open and closed types. Professional fishermen use flares, which are effective when fishing from a long distance.

Some carp anglers launch special radio-controlled boats to deliver bait. With their help, you can perform starting feeding and deliver the mixture to a point at a given time interval. Their load capacity can reach 1 kg. Some models are equipped with lighting for night fishing.

Homemade recipes

1. In the evening, cook porridge from millet and pearl barley. One glass of each grain to two glasses of water. Add unrefined vegetable oil, anise solution 3-5 drops. Wrap up and place in a warm place overnight.
2. One glass of pearl barley is poured into two glasses of water and cooked over low heat, stirring. After cooking, rinse the barley with cold water. Dry and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Mix again. The secret of the second recipe is that when the bait hits the water, pieces of crackers fall off and attract fish.